Facebook Friend Picker Sdk Sample Not Working Android

Please help me to get the facebook friends from my profile using 3.14 SDK. There is no error in the code but the problem is getting empty list while fetching friends in my profile.

Solution 1:

After a long struggle I found my own solution to the above question. Facebook have released their new SDK recently to enhance the level of security. There are a few requirements to use facebook SDK in your app.

1. The app should be sent for submission and needs to be approved by facebook to be use inside facebook, to enable your own app to show friends details, access locations and other special permissions The approval formalities are similar to the ones for app store in Google Play.

2. The application must be listed in Google Play, or you may be able to integrate it as a test user (i.e like beta testing in Google Play).

3. The application should have a proper package name, launching activity, domain name, website url and email.

4. The app id registered must match with an app name and hash key that must be generated for a user developing on different machines

5. The basic application information, including screenshots, description, and app logo needs to be added

6. Once after the successful approval, an "active" symbol will be displayed near your app name.

I hope this will be useful for others!!!

More information on Facebook site.

Solution 2:

After spending a good number of hours trying to resolve this, I would like to add the following for anyone still looking:

1. The only friends you will see in the list with user_friend permissions is other users that have logged in and approved your app. I.e. if no-one else is using it, you will se noone in the list (I know, if you read it all, this is obvious)
2. The easiest way of testing this is to set up a test app, add test users in the dev interface for facebook under "Roles", make sure that the test users are friends and then log in with each use on your app. Only then will they show up in the list.

3. Unless you ask for it specifically, your app will not have the user_friends permission (you do not, however, need to review this with Facebook as it is part of the basic permissions) - I added it to the onCreateView in the Splash Segment (from the Scrumptios/Login sample in the SDK) like this:

   LoginButtonloginButton= (LoginButton) view.findViewById(R.id.login_button);
   loginButton.setReadPermissions(Arrays.asList("user_friends"));
   

4. Use the Facebook test user interface to login on facebook as your test user to validate that they have been accepting the correct permissions (under apps).